Happiness

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

- Robert Staughton Lynd

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

- Alphonse Karr

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

- Alphonse Karr

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

- Joseph Roux

The right to happiness is fundamental.

- Anna Pavlova

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

- Walter Savage Landor

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

- Leon Kass

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

- Jose Marti

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

- Alfred de Musset

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

- Andrei Platonov

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

- Booth Tarkington

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

- Frank McCourt

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

- William Dean Howells

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

- C. S. Lewis

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

- Jim Rohn

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Buddha

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

- Democritus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

- Albert Camus

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

- Helen Keller

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

- Dalai Lama

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

- C. S. Lewis

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

- Denis Waitley

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

- Benjamin Franklin

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

- Kevyn Aucoin

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

- William Morris

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

- Joseph Addison

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

- Thomas Jefferson

Independence is happiness.

- Susan B. Anthony

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

- Khalil Gibran

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

- Helen Keller

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

- George Washington

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

- Thomas Jefferson

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

- Chanakya

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

- George Burns

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

- Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

- Helen Keller

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

- Arthur Helps

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

- Benjamin Franklin

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

- Confucius

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

- Aristotle

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

- Albert Schweitzer

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

- John Dewey

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

- Henry David Thoreau

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

- George Bernard Shaw

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

- Aristotle

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

- William Butler Yeats

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.